Pleasanton
Americannoun
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Pleasanton, Calif.-based Workday’s stock, which is down about 40% this year, has been battered by investor fears that artificial intelligence chatbots and large language models will make conventional business software obsolete.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Mendoza interned at Acre Investment Company, a real-estate investment firm in Pleasanton, Calif., the summer before his sophomore year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Another Maui resident, Roger Pleasanton, told the BBC that the traffic was "like New York City right now".
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025
The 44-year-old former criminal prosecutor has represented a moderately well-off slice of the East Bay suburbs — Fremont, Livermore, Pleasanton among them — for the last dozen years.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2025
How many out there today, across that silent field: There was Pleasanton, of the cavalry, and Newton, new commander of the First Corps.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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